Starting tonight 55 police officers will be patrolling the streets, looking at "hot spots." This effort to suppress gang activity will last for the next month.
It's in response to the shootings that left two dead and one injured who told me he thought he was going to die this morning. Norman Henry is lucky to be alive.
"I laid on the floor for a minute cause we thought they were gonna shoot some more," Henry said.
Sunday morning around 4 a.m. someone fired several shots into his home in southwest Fresno. A bullet hit his shoulder. Henry was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center.
"They operated. They were digging all in it. I got a bullet fragment in my shoulder," Henry said.
Henry's 48-year old friend was not so lucky. She was shot and killed walking to the door. Neighbors identified her as Frederika Whitaker
"Like thunder. Boom boom boom. All kind of stuff like that. Fragments. Bullets going through the house," the boyfriend of the woman said.
Outside the house neighbors say they saw someone running away from a car and diving for cover when the shots were fired.
Police found a 16-year old boy shot and killed in Henry's front yard.
"He got killed in the yard. I didn't even know who he was. They showed me a picture but I've never seen him before," Henry said.
Now investigators are relying on technology to help them. This video camera installed 18-months ago at the corner of Poppy and Grove could provide detectives with a clearer picture of what happened.
Meanwhile Henry says this is a dangerous intersection and he might be right, this is the second time he's been shot at his house.
"I got shot in my leg in 2006," Henry said.
In a late afternoon news conference Chief Dyer told us the video camera caught the shooting and showed another male with the one who was shot.
Right now no one who was inside this house is considered a suspect.
